1page.title=Remembering Users 2 3trainingnavtop=true 4startpage=true 5next.title=Remembering Your User 6next.link=identify.html 7 8@jd:body 9 10 11<div id="tb-wrapper"> 12<div id="tb"> 13 14<h2>Requirements and prerequisites</h2> 15<ul> 16 <li>Android 2.0 (API level 5) or higher</li> 17 <li>Experience with <a href="{@docRoot}guide/components/services.html">Services</a></li> 18 <li>Experience with <a href="http://oauth.net/2/">OAuth 2.0</a></li> 19</ul> 20 21<h2>You should also read</h2> 22<ul> 23 <li><a 24href="http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/SampleSyncAdapter/index.html"> 25SampleSyncAdapter app</a></li> 26</ul> 27 28</div> 29</div> 30 31 32<p>Android users get attached to their devices and to applications that they 33love. One way to make your application lovable is to make it personal. Android 34devices know who your user is, what services they have access to, and where they 35store your data. With your user's permission, you can use that information to 36make your application a richer, more personal experience.</p> 37 38<p>In this class, you will learn multiple techniques for interacting with your 39user's identity, enabling you to:</p> 40 41<ul> 42<li>Personalize your app by remembering users by their account name(s) 43<li>Authenticate the user to make sure they are who they say they are 44<li>Gain permission to access the user's online data via services like 45the Google APIs 46<li>Add a custom account to the user's device to authenticate your own 47back-end services 48</ul> 49 50 51<h2>Lessons</h2> 52 53<dl> 54 <dt><b><a href="identify.html">Remembering Your User</a></b></dt> 55 <dd>Use {@link android.accounts.AccountManager} to learn the user's account name(s).</dd> 56 57 <dt><b><a href="authenticate.html">Authenticating to OAuth2 Services</a></b></dt> 58 <dd> Use OAuth2 to help users get permission to access web services without needing to type in a 59login name or password. </dd> 60 61 <dt><b><a href="custom_auth.html">Creating a Custom Account Type</a></b></dt> 62 <dd>Add your own account type to the Android Account Manager.</dd> 63 64</dl> 65 66